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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-08-05 21:14:05 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 388.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190805211405-9m6hecekaihpttz9
Override lintian warnings about upgrading from old versions

There are some really things which are imperative that we fix in case
someone were to upgrade from a really old version.  We want to keep
these fixes in the postinst maintainer scripts, even though lintian
complains about such old upgrades not being supported by Debian in
general.  We prefer the code being there, for the sake of the users.

* debian/mandos-client.lintian-overrides
  (maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version): New.
  debian/mandos.lintian-overrides
  (maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version): - '' -

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2023-10-21">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-24">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program is not meant to be run directly; it is really meant
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      to be run by other programs in the initial
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      <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment; see <xref
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      linkend="overview"/>.
 
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      to run as a plugin of the <application>Mandos</application>
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
 
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which runs in the
 
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      initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment because it is
 
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      specified as a <quote>keyscript</quote> in the <citerefentry>
 
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      <refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
 
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      </citerefentry> file.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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    <title>OPTIONS</title>
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    <para>
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      This program is commonly not invoked from the command line; it
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      is normally started by another program as described in <xref
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      linkend="description"/>.  Any command line options this program
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      accepts are therefore normally provided by the invoking program,
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      and not directly.
 
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      is normally started by the <application>Mandos</application>
 
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      plugin runner, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle
 
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
 
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      </citerefentry>.  Any command line options this program accepts
 
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      are therefore normally provided by the plugin runner, and not
 
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      directly.
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    </para>
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    <variablelist>
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    <title>OVERVIEW</title>
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    <xi:include href="../overview.xml"/>
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    <para>
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      This program is the client part.  It is run automatically in an
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      initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      In an initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment using
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, this program is started
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      by the <application>Mandos</application> <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which in turn is
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      started automatically by the <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> <quote>Password Agent</quote> system.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      <refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> environment, this program is started as a plugin
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which runs in the
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      initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment because it is
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      specified as a <quote>keyscript</quote> in the <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> file.
 
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      This program is the client part.  It is a plugin started by
 
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> which will run in
 
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program could, theoretically, be used as a keyscript in
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      <filename>/etc/crypttab</filename>, but it would then be
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      impossible to enter a password for the encrypted root disk at
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      <refentrytitle>password-prompt</refentrytitle>
 
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>) will prompt for
 
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      passwords on the system console.
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    <title>EXAMPLE</title>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>